I was a rotten teenager, sharp-tongued and eager to control others. I told lies. At an early age that I could make things   1  my way with just a few small changes. The writers for today’s hottest soap opera could not have created a   2  character than me.

I don’t know how long it took me to realize how I was   3  so many others. Not only did I succeed in   4  many of my closest friends by trying to control them; I also managed to destroy the most   5  relationship in my life; my relationship with my mother.

My mother, who gave birth to me at age 38  6  her doctor’s wishes, would cry to me, “I waited so long for you. Don’t ignore my help!” I would reply   7  , “I never wanted you to care about me! Leave me alone and forget I   8  lived!”

My mother began to believe I really   9  it. Like many young girls in high school, the boys whom I knew were   10  were always the first ones I had to date. I would try to find any way to draw attention to myself   11  at the same time trying to be invisible. I had also been   12  into drugs then to change my personality. My only pleasure was to make people feel   13  .  

But then I asked  14  why. Why the need to hurt? Why the attacks on my mother? I would drive myself mad with all the whys until one day, I couldn’t   15  it any longer and jump from a car moving at 80 miles per hour.

Lying awake the following night at the hospital, I saw my mother’s pained face-warm, tired brown   16  filled with nothing but thanks for her daughter’s rebirth of life.

  17  all the horrible things I did to her, she still loved me. I cried and asked why. She just looked down at me and said frankly, “I don’t know.”

  18   love is the most precious gift we can give. Being   19  for the past is the most precious gift we can receive. I want to   20  the gift my mother gave me to all the “rotten teenagers” in the world.

1．A．go                        B．come                  C．turn                    D．feel

2．A．better                    B．worse                 C．happier                D．cleverer

3．A．loving                   B．hating                  C．hurting                D．shocking

4．A．putting off             B．breaking into        C．keeping up           D．pushing away

5．A．curious                 B．precious              C．nervous               D．obvious

6．A．against                  B．for                      C．according to        D．with

7．A．gently                   B．suddenly              C．sharply                D．unwillingly

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8．A．never                    B．ever                    C．already                D．before

9．A．said                      B．knew                  C．hoped                 D．meant

10．A．available              B．possible               C．impossible           D．believable

11．A．  when                 B．while                   C．and                     D．or

12．A．heavy                  B．easy                    C．difficult               D．fast

13．A．fright                  B．confusion            C．excitement           D．pain

14．A．myself                B．my mother           C．my friend            D．my father

15．A．explain                B．control                C．stand                  D．accept

16．A．gestures              B．faces                   C．eyes                    D．feelings

17．A．Since                  B．Although             C．Though               D．Despite

18．A．Unconditional       B．Slow                   C．Quick                 D．True

19．A．loved                  B．forgiven              C．hated                  D．forgotten

20．A．tell                    B．provide                C．supply               D．extend

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　　Did you ever have someone's name on the tip of your tongue and yet you were unable to recall (记起) it?  1 this happens again, don't  2 to recall it. Do something  3 for a couple of minutes,  4 the name may come into your head. The name is there since you have met  5 person and you have heard his name. It  6 has to be dug out. The first effort to recall  7 the mind for operation, but it is the subconscious (下意识的)  8 that go to work to dig up  9 memory. Forcing yourself to recall  10 never helps because it doesn't loosen your  11 ; it only tightens it. Students find the

preparatory method helpful  12 examinations. They read over the questions  13 trying to answer any of them.  14 they answer first the ones  15 which they are most certain. Meanwhile , deeper mental activities in the subconscious mind are taking  16 ; work is being done in the  17 difficult question. By the time the easier questions are answered, answers  18 the more difficult ones will usually begin to  19 into consciousness. It is often  20 a question of waiting for recall to come to the memory.

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